Recent Articles
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Google, Microsoft Battle for Business Cloud Customers
For more than a year, Microsoft has been pushing an aggressive “all in” cloud strategy. The reason behind it is simple: Although desktop-bound software such as Windows and Office continues to dump tons of cash at the company’s front door, a paradigm shift is underway—one that threatens to leave Microsoft behind as consumers and businesses…
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Amazon Planning to Launch Android-Based Tablet PC in 2011: Analyst
Amazon.com is aiming to release at least one tablet computer based on Google’s Android operating system in time for the holiday 2011 season, said an industry analyst May 23. Creative Strategies analyst Tim Bajarin, who spoke to sources in Tapiei where many computers are manufactured, said in a PC Magazine piece that the bookseller-turned-mobile-device maker…
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Network-Attached Storage for SMBs to Be a $2 Billion Market by 2015
More than seven in 10 SMBs that use cloud-based storage solutions also use networked-attached storage, according to a recent In-Stat survey. While SMB NAS represents a smaller portion of the total NAS market, it is expected to grow at a much faster rate over the forecast period, with revenues reaching $2 billion in 2015, said…
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Businesses Not Keeping Up with New Security Threats: Report
Nearly three-quarters (73 percent) of corporate network devices analyzed by Dimension Data during 2010 were carrying at least one known security vulnerability. This is almost double the 38 percent recorded in 2009. Dimension Data also found that a single higher-risk vulnerability, PSIRT 109444, which was identified by Cisco in September 2009, was discovered in a…
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Citrix Acquires Desktop Virtualization Specialist Kaviza
Citrix Systems announced it has closed its acquisition of Kaviza, maker of the all-in-one “VDI-in-a-Box” solution for small to medium-size businesses (SMBs). The acquisition adds a VDI-only solution to the Citrix portfolio, and the Kaviza VDI-in-a-Box product complements the Citrix XenDesktop product line for enterprise-class desktop virtualization. Customers can continue to purchase VDI-in-a-Box from Kaviza…